HCC presents Ghost Platform: Organizing Against Invisibility

What does it mean to build solidarity across borders, and how can collective struggles for liberation inspire us to imagine and create different futures?

This Autumn, Haringey Community Cinema presents Building Global Solidarities, a programme of films, talks and community conversations exploring the histories, possibilities and contradictions of decolonisation, collective resistance and international solidarity.

At a time of deepening inequalities, accelerating climate breakdown, rising authoritarianism and intensifying military conflicts, the need to build solidarities across communities and borders has become increasingly urgent. Yet solidarity is neither inevitable nor straightforward. It must be cultivated, negotiated and sustained, often across differences in geography, culture, political traditions and lived experiences.

Travelling from the struggles for independence in the Congo to the contested politics of identity and belonging in Tamil Nadu, and the organising of dockworkers and logistics workers across Europe, this programme brings together films that examine how communities confront structures of domination and build collective power. Through these films We explore the diverse methods in which these citizens choose to access their citizenship through organising, speaking truth to power and building networks

Through these different histories and struggles, we explore the complex relationships between culture, politics, identity and resistance. How do people organise against systems of exploitation and oppression? How are political identities shaped, contested and mobilised? What can we learn from movements that have sought to transform their societies, and from those continuing to resist today?

Rather than treating international solidarity as a closed chapter of history, Building Global Solidarities invites us to consider it as an unfinished political project, one that must continually be reimagined and put into practice.

Each screening will be followed by a community conversation with filmmakers, organisers, researchers and invited speakers. Together, we hope to create spaces not only for critical reflection, but also for building relationships, exchanging experiences and imagining how conversations might inspire collective action.
DONATIONS: For this screening, part of the donations will go toward a Palestinian organisation. We will let you know as soon as possible which organisation the funds will be sent to.

Ghost Platform is a collaborative video initiative bringing together worker-organizers, artists and researchers to investigate the invisibilization of human labour in contemporary cargo logistics and data infrastructure. Using custom software for secure collaboration, the group filmed in response to the rising inequality, political repression, and ecological impact enabled by these systems. To contradict the stories told by Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc, the episodic structure of the film looks at groups in Europe and beyond as they struggle to resist exploitation and build cross-border alliances. Filming from 2022-2025 documented unprecedented shifts: post-pandemic cargo logistics met questions around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s (re)turn to a war economy, and organising in resistance to Israel’s perpetration of genocide in Gaza. The film captures moments in Italy and elsewhere where dockworkers and grassroots logistics unions have been at the forefront of blockades and refusals to load or unload military cargo. It also reflects upon the direct and severe repression these efforts have faced as a result. As the film’s chapters criss-cross supply chains, seeing that it is the same ships and data centers conveying goods and information—holiday gifts, the latest AI slop, or fighter jet and bomb parts headed for further human devastation—asks what models and new alliances could succeed today? As we seek to organize for more just and equitable futures, documenting logistics struggles provokes a different understanding of the terrain of the present and what may be possible.

Credits:

Ghost Platform originated as an artistic research project, conceived and led by the artist Benjamin Gerdes (US/SE) as a way to connect sites across supply chains, building on his prior work filming in solidarity with militant dockworkers in Sweden. The network between 2022 and 2025 grew to include collaborations with members and organizers from the labor unions: SI Cobas (Italy), Amazon Workers International & OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Poland), Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) (Spain), Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) (Spain), Svenska Hamnarbetarförbundet (Sweden), SAC Syndikalisterna (Sweden), Villa Medusa social centre (Italy), Unione Sindicale di Base (USB) (Italy), Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali (CALP) (Italy). This was made possible through the work of specific artists and researchers: Bahaleen Collective (Aya Besio and Noura Salem) (Jordan), Benjamin Gerdes (Sweden) Christopher Byrnes (Spain), Daniel López (Spain), Elia Wehaiba El Khazen (Germany/Lebanon), Felicia Fahlin (Sweden), Gabriella Cioce (Italy), Magda Malinowska (Poland), Michele Amaglio (Italy), Pedro Exposito (Spain), Peppe D’Alesio (Italy), Robert Ochshorn (USA/Belgium) Karin Krifors (Sweden), Hege Høyer Leivestad (Sweden/Norway), Rati Kupatadze (Sweden). The footage is also released to participants for their own purposes.

Benjamin Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organiser working in video, film, and related public formats, individually as well as collaboratively. He is interested in intersections of radical politics, knowledge production, and popular imagination. His work focuses on the affective and social consequences of economic and state regimes, investigating methods for art and cultural projects to contribute to social change. Gerdes’s projects emerge via multiple articulations from long-term research processes conducted in dialogue with activists, trade unionists, architects, urbanists, geographers, and archival researchers. Originally from the United States, he is surprised to have been based in Sweden for the past 7 years.

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Chestnuts Community Centre offers a fantastic community facility and community programme in the heart of South Tottenham. The building is located in Chestnut Park (closest tube station is Seven Sisters), and is fully accessible. If you have any accessibility needs or questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Haringey Community Cinema (HCC) was launched in April 2025 and is run by volunteers. Inspired by Brixton Community Cinema, HCC is aimed at bringing residents of Haringey together through film. Our mission is to showcase films that challenge, inspire, and spark critical reflection—films that make us think and act. Visit our website.

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